derelict

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As a CEO must feel like going through your parents' stuff in a dusty, derelict attic.

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a person without a home, job, or property

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noun

a person without a home, job, or property

noun

a ship abandoned on the high seas

adjective

worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for derelict.

noun

a person without a home, job, or property

noun

a ship abandoned on the high seas

adjective

worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"

adjective

forsaken by owner or inhabitants ; "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"

adjective

failing in what duty requires; "derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"; "neglectful of his duties"; "remiss of you not to pay your bills"

See also: delinquent, neglectful, remiss

adjective

in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"

Example sentences

As a CEO must feel like going through your parents' stuff in a dusty, derelict attic.

Just let it sit there as a derelict building in the middle of a national forest?

And those countries will keep buying those derelict Soviet planes because those are dirt cheap to the point most are hand-me-downs obtained for free.

The notion of storing my mail spool on anyone else's servers is unfathomably derelict to me.

Evidently it's not derelict anymore... the University of Arizon has owned it since 2011.

[1]If the goal by which we make neighborhood/city wide planning decisions is the ability to "look after" one's property, I propose homeowners are clearly more socially derelict and likely to ignore the community.

The point is not that it's 9am in California, the point is that it's the 13th March already, and the first human answer we get, just minutes ago, is a developer of the new 3-man team being assembled to take over that derelict product -that processes millions, by the way.

Writing up and posting a small 1-page website did not take any time at all away from "coming up with new ideas, or responding to legitimate support inquiries".It's fine if you don't like it, but don't act like they were somehow derelict in their normal duties by making this.